It just stops the kernel and syslog/klog from beeing able to dump symbol names instead of hex numbers. It isn't fatal; but ps in the olden days used to rely on system.map to seek in /dev/kmem Regards, Kerry. On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 03:35:55PM -0500, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > I guess that is right, and I do not mind, but it would be nice to > be warned about it. I wonder what else ought to try to > anticipate. Here is another one I found while poking around in my > syslog messages... > > When rebuilding the kernel I have been using the "make install" > command as the final step. It guarantees I will not forget about > running lilo. However, in Slackware the new kernel and the new > System.map are placed directly under "/", which turns out not to > be such a cool thing to do. During the bootup process the new > kernel looks for its symbol table in /boot/System.map and not in > /System.map, so after upgrading to a new kernel version I have > been operating with the wrong symbol table. When I manually > copied /System.map to /boot/System.map I eliminated some bootup > error messages about an incorrect version number in the symbol > table. I wonder what kind of problems I have created for myself > in running a kernel with the incorrect System.map? > > Chuck > > > On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > > Isn't that after all the philosophy behind slackware? > > Greg > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 11:29:28AM -0500, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > > > Thanks, Kirk, > > > I guess I have to do that sort of thing by hand in Slackware. > > > Pity. > > > Chuck > > > > > > On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Kirk Wood wrote: > > > > > > > Charles, > > > > > > > > I checked arround on my system. In my monthly cron job file there is a > > > > comment that the rotation of wtmp has been taken over by logrotate. (I > > > > have debian if it matters.) Also, I noticed that I have a wtmp.1 last > > > > modified on Jan 31, and a wtmp. From this information I would think that > > > > it would be fine to move the file and let the system create a new one > > > > automatically. If you wanted to be sure, you could touch the file just > > > > after moving to put a new one in place. > > > > > > > > ======= > > > > Kirk Wood > > > > Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net > > > > > > > > Nowlan's Theory: > > > > He who hesitates is not only lost, but several miles from > > > > the next freeway exit. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > Visit me now at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck > > > The Moon is Waxing Crescent (5% of Full) > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > Visit me now at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck > The Moon is Waxing Crescent (6% of Full) > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.net kerry at gotss.eu.org or kerry at gotss.spice.net.au
